Writing on Feb 15, 2011

Mike DeHaan

Having found my Environmental Graffiti article was published this morning, my first task will be to publicize it. Please refer to the next paragraph for more details.

I reviewed the search engine results for several articles I had submitted to Social Monkee. Only one search term has shown an improvement. I am not convinced it is worth using. On the other hand, I want to see if it will make a big difference for some other site that has a poor page rank.

I won the project to produce twenty miscellaneous manufacturing articles for an ongoing client. That will keep me very busy this afternoon, and in days to come. Today I did research and draft two articles.

I also logged a note for one e-book. It needs a stronger start, so I will need to begin with the fight scene that had merely been told in dialogue. "Show, don't tell" is great advice to writers...especially playwrights, but it applies to authors of fiction, too. For the last hour of the evening, I did write that chapter. I think it is a much stronger start.

I wanted to see whether it would gather page views based on the "environmental" title, since the "Chocolate versus Carob" article had done so well.

Search Engine Optimization for a Squidoo Lens

Amish Style Wood Computer Desk in a Modern Home Office by godber

I have been monitoring the SERP (Search Engine Results Page) results for a few of my articles after publicizing them through Social Monkee.

Today I tweaked the contents of The DeHaan Lens for Wood Computer Desks, a Squidoo lens, by adding the key phrase 'wood computer desks' about three times to headings and the general text. My goal is to improve the SERP for this article from 50, when searching for "wood computer desks" (including the double-quote symbols in the search phrase).